Porting Pigz to Windows: A Surprisingly Smooth Cross-Platform Journey

Pigz, a Unix-style compression tool, was surprisingly easy to port to Windows. The article details the challenges encountered, such as differences in pthreads threading library and dirent functions, and minor variations in C library function names. The author cleverly utilized existing compatibility patches and the Premake build system to overcome these hurdles. Premake simplified the creation and maintenance of Visual Studio project files, ultimately resulting in a successful Pigz implementation on Windows.